Title and sections amended. Sections added. Water for fire protection. Payment for. Proviso. [No. 202.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections one and three of act number eighty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to authorize township boards to contract with cities or villages for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes, and to authorize the issuing of bonds in connection therewith", and to add thereto two new sections to stand as sections seven and eight. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and sections one and three of act number eighty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to authorize township boards to contract with cities or villages for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes, and to authorize the issuing of bonds in connection therewith," is hereby amended and two new sections are added thereto, to stand as sections seven and eight, said amended and added sections to read as follows: TITLE An Act to authorize township boards to contract with cities or villages for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes; to authorize the issuing of bonds in connection therewith and to provide for the making, levying and collecting of special assessments to partially defray the cost thereof. SEC. 1. Upon the filing of petitions verified both as to signature and ownership, signed by sixty per centum of the record owners of the land to be made into a special assessment district, the township board in any township shall have the power to contract with any city or village for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes to such portion of the township, and under such terms and conditions, as may be agreed upon between said township board and the common council or other representative body of the city or village. SEC. 3. Fifty per cent of the cost of purchasing, laying and maintaining said pipe shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the township: Provided, That if the amount which the said township is lawfully authorized to raise for township purposes is not sufficient to pay the township's share of purchasing and laying said pipe the electors of said township, at the annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, may authorize the raising of the amount deemed necessary for said purposes, and also whether the said amount shall be raised by tax in one year or by bonds to be issued for the purpose. assessments. SEC. 7. The remaining fifty per cent of the cost shall be Special raised by the levying and collection of special assessments. The township board shall have the power to determine the cost thereof; to create, define and establish a special assessment district upon which the cost shall be levied; to levy and collect the special assessments; to pay the cost thereof; and to issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of said special assessments. cost. when SEC. 8. Before purchasing or laying said pipe, the town- Determiship board shall determine by resolution the cost thereof and nation of shall provide for the making of a special assessment upon each and every parcel of land in the special assessment district by benefits, and for the issuing and sale of special assessment bonds in anticipation of the collection of said special assessment taxes. No such bonds shall be issued prior to the final Bonds, confirmation of the assessment roll by the township board. issued. All proceedings relating to the making, levying or collection of special assessments herein authorized and the issuing of bonds in anticipation of the collection thereof, shall conform as near as may be, to the proceedings for levying special assessments and issuing special assessment bonds by villages for like purposes, as set forth in act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, being, as amended, chapter seventy-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended. If any such special assessment fund is insufficient to pay such bonds and interest thereon when due, the township board shall advance the amount necessary to pay such bonds, and shall be reimbursed from such assessments when collected, or by re-assessment of the deficiency, if necessary. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 203.] AN ACT to provide for the completion, printing, binding, distribution and sale of the index of the local and special acts of the state of Michigan; and to make an appropriation for the compensation and expense of the officers designated by act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, to make said index. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The index of all the local and special acts of Index of the state of Michigan prepared in accordance with the pro- acts.' local, etc., visions of act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen shall be printed, bound and distributed as hereinafter provided. Title and sections amended. Sections added. Water for fire protection. Payment for. Proviso. [No. 202.] AN ACT to amend the title and sections one and three of act number eighty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to authorize township boards to contract with cities or villages for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes, and to authorize the issuing of bonds in connection therewith", and to add thereto two new sections to stand as sections seven and eight. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and sections one and three of act number eighty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to authorize township boards to contract with cities or villages for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes, and to authorize the issuing of bonds in connection therewith," is hereby amended and two new sections are added thereto, to stand as sections seven and eight, said amended and added sections to read as follows: TITLE An Act to authorize township boards to contract with cities or villages for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes; to authorize the issuing of bonds in connection therewith and to provide for the making, levying and collecting of special assessments to partially defray the cost thereof. SEC. 1. Upon the filing of petitions verified both as to signature and ownership, signed by sixty per centum of the record owners of the land to be made into a special assessment district, the township board in any township shall have the power to contract with any city or village for the furnishing of water for fire protection and other purposes to such portion of the township, and under such terms and conditions, as may be agreed upon between said township board and the common council or other representative body of the city or village. SEC. 3. Fifty per cent of the cost of purchasing, laying and maintaining said pipe shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the township: Provided, That if the amount which the said township is lawfully authorized to raise for township purposes is not sufficient to pay the township's share of purchasing and laying said pipe the electors of said township, at the annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, may authorize the raising of the amount deemed necessary for said purposes, and also whether the said amount shall be raised by tax in one year or by bonds to be issued for the purpose. assessments. SEC. 7. The remaining fifty per cent of the cost shall be Special raised by the levying and collection of special assessments. The township board shall have the power to determine the cost thereof; to create, define and establish a special assessment district upon which the cost shall be levied; to levy and collect the special assessments; to pay the cost thereof; and to issue bonds in anticipation of the collection of said special assessments. cost. when SEC. 8. Before purchasing or laying said pipe, the town- Determiship board shall determine by resolution the cost thereof and nation of shall provide for the making of a special assessment upon each and every parcel of land in the special assessment district by benefits, and for the issuing and sale of special assessment bonds in anticipation of the collection of said special assessment taxes. No such bonds shall be issued prior to the final Bonds, confirmation of the assessment roll by the township board. issued. All proceedings relating to the making, levying or collection of special assessments herein authorized and the issuing of bonds in anticipation of the collection thereof, shall conform as near as may be, to the proceedings for levying special assessments and issuing special assessment bonds by villages for like purposes, as set forth in act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, being, as amended, chapter seventy-two of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended. If any such special assessment fund is insufficient to pay such bonds and interest thereon when due, the township board shall advance the amount necessary to pay such bonds, and shall be reimbursed from such assessments when collected, or by re-assessment of the deficiency, if necessary. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 203.] AN ACT to provide for the completion, printing, binding, distribution and sale of the index of the local and special acts of the state of Michigan; and to make an appropriation for the compensation and expense of the officers designated by act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, to make said index. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The index of all the local and special acts of Index of local, etc., the state of Michigan prepared in accordance with the pro- acts." visions of act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen shall be printed, bound and distributed as hereinafter provided. What to include. Certification. Printing. Idem. Style, etc. Binding. Label. Distribution. Sale of. SEC. 2. The officers designated by said act number two hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, shall incorporate with the text of said index the index of the local and special acts enacted by the nineteen hundred twenty-five, and the present legislature as soon as practicable after the close of the present session. The said officers shall add to the said index such annotations and citations as shall make such index substantially complete down to the time of printing. SEC. 3. After the said index shall have been completed, as provided in the preceding section, the said officers shall certify to its correctness and shall place the same in the hands of the state printers. SEC. 4. The printing of said index shall be done by the state printers as other state printing is done and the expense thereof shall be paid from the general fund of the state treasury. The printing shall be under the immediate supervision of the said officers who shall personally read the final proofs, comparing them with the original texts of the statutes. and verifying the references and citations. SEC. 5. The index shall be printed by the state printers under the terms of the contract now existing between such printers and the state, in pages of substantially the size and measurement of the public acts of nineteen hundred twentyfive. The style of the work shall be determined by the said officers. The paper shall be furnished by the board of state auditors and shall be of quality, grade, weight and finish of the paper used in the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five. When printed, the index shall be firmly and substantially bound by the state printers in buckram binding in one volume in accordance with the existing contract between such state binders and the state of Michigan and the expense shall be paid from the general fund of the state treasury. The volume so bound shall be labeled on the back "Index of Local Acts of Michigan-1803-1927". SEC. 6. An edition of three thousand copies of said index shall be printed and bound by the state printers and shall be delivered to the secretary of state for distribution. One bound volume of said index shall be delivered to each of the following persons, officers and libraries, viz., libraries of state officers, libraries of state institutions, libraries of state boards, members of the legislature of nineteen hundred twenty-seven, the secretary of the senate, the clerk of the house of representatives, each elective state officer, each circuit judge, each judge and clerk of the recorder's, superior and police courts, county clerks, prosecuting attorneys, judges of probate, public and bar association libraries and six copies to each of the officers who prepared the said index. In addition to the foregoing, there shall be deposited in the state library two hundred copies for use in said library and for exchange. SEC. 7. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to sell from time to time any number of the copies |